Mind, Brain, Soul - What's the Difference ?
Mind, Brain, Soul - Who we really are ... Most of us prefer to think that we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons; something that animates us and makes us the human individual that we are. But a lot of what we perhaps used to classed as mind seems to be turning out to be brain and some part of that must surely also be the soul. So what is the difference between the Mind, Brain and Soul? If we question who we are in these terms, we will soon discover that we are not only our minds, but something else and maybe everything else at the same time. And what about the soul? Is the soul individual or are we all separate souls? One of my favourite topics is memory and how we define and recall our memories. Many greater 'minds' than mine have over centuries have A memory, at the cellular level, is a particular pattern of cellular changes on particular spots in our heads. A mood however, is a compound of neuro tr...